Republic of China Era: Entering the Dao through Divine Strike.

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Amidst the pervasive vitality, the body began to circulate true energy, impacting the eight extraordinary meridians.

The first one is the Yin Wei Meridian.

This meridian originates on the inner side of the lower leg, ascends along the thigh to the abdomen, and intersects with the Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian.

As the dragon energy surged in, a tingling and numb sensation came from the inside of my calf, as if countless fine needles were simultaneously piercing my bone marrow.

But after experiencing the crushing pain of being pressed down by a mountain like the Dragon Locking Formation, this little bit of pain was nothing to him.

Within half an hour, the Yinwei meridian was opened.

After consuming the dragon's energy again, his true energy became even more vast.

The second meridian is the Yangwei Meridian, which originates at the outer side of the heel, ascends along the outer side of the leg, passes through the ribs, and reaches the shoulder and neck.

When the dragon energy rushed in, the Jianjing acupoint throbbed, and the entire right arm trembled involuntarily a few times.

He pressed his shoulder, guiding the surging true energy upwards inch by inch.

Two quarters of an hour later, the Yangwei meridian was opened.

As the dragon's energy is depleted, it's like adding fuel to a furnace at any time.

True Qi is like a raging flame, its energy growing stronger and stronger, and the torrent of true Qi gradually becomes a small river.

Rushing forward, sweeping away all obstacles.

The third Yin Qiao meridian and the fourth Yang Qiao meridian were connected within one hour.

With each extraordinary meridian opened, the body's internal energy increases by one level.

The golden sea of ​​qi in his dantian had expanded from the size of a pond to the vastness of a small lake.

A faint golden mist rose up, and a powerful aura spread to the extremities of the body.

It integrates into the skin and bones, and travels through the meridians and energy channels.

Gradually, a dense net of true energy spread throughout his body.

Next, the target is the belt meridian.

This meridian encircles the waist and abdomen, and is the only one of the extraordinary meridians that runs horizontally.

When the true energy surged in, it felt as if a red-hot iron chain was tightly binding around the waist and abdomen.

Every breath was accompanied by excruciating pain in my internal organs.

It took him almost half an hour to finally open up this meridian.

Looking out the window, a sliver of dawn was already appearing. Of the eight extraordinary meridians in my body, only the last three remained... the Ren meridian, the Du meridian, and the Chong meridian.

These three are the most important main branches among all the extraordinary meridians.

The Ren meridian runs along the center of the front of the body, the Du meridian runs along the center of the back of the body, and the Chong meridian runs through the upper and lower body and governs all meridians.

By opening up the Ren and Du meridians, one can connect the bridge between heaven and earth and achieve a connection between heaven and humanity.

At this stage, the previous gradual nurturing is no longer sufficient.

Li Xin extracted eighty taels of dragon energy from the silver bottle in one go.

This time, the dragon energy merged with the true energy and was transformed in the blink of an eye. The true energy surged, no longer a trickle, but a flood bursting its banks.

The Ren meridian was the first to be opened...

Starting from the perineum, the path ascends along the midline of the abdomen, passing the Qihai point, piercing the Tanzhong point, reaching the throat, and ending below the lips.

As his inner energy surged through the Tanzhong acupoint, it felt as if a ball of fire had been stuffed into his chest cavity. His heart clenched sharply, and then that fire spread throughout his limbs and bones along with his blood flow. Immediately afterwards, the Du meridian was opened…

It ascends along the spine from the perineum, passes through the Mingmen point, goes through the Dazhui point, and goes straight to the Baihui point on the top of the head.

The true energy swirled three times around the Baihui acupoint, like a trapped beast banging against its cage, emitting a buzzing tremor.

He took a deep breath and guided the true energy to penetrate inward, inch by inch, breaking through that invisible barrier.

I don't know how much time passed... maybe a quarter of an hour, maybe a long time, until the first light of dawn appeared in the east, and the rooster crowed outside the window...

The Baihui acupoint trembled violently, and an extremely thin and faint golden column of energy shot out from the top of the head, passed through the roof, pierced through the night sky, and pierced straight into the void above the head.

The barrier was pierced.

The moment the Ren and Du meridians were simultaneously opened, Li Xin's body underwent some indescribable change.

His breathing paused for a moment.

It's not that I'm holding my breath, it's that I genuinely don't need to breathe...

The acupoints throughout the body automatically absorb and release the energy of heaven and earth, and a very faint golden luster appears on the surface of the skin.

He closed his eyes, but "saw" the scenery around him: a silver bottle on the table, a broken gun in the corner, swaying bamboo leaves outside the window, dewdrops gathering on the bamboo leaves, and a half-moon reflected in the dewdrops.

Everything seemed to have its own aura and its own characteristics.

"Like that dewdrop, carrying the chill of dawn, it subtly contains an extremely profound Tao and principle."

Li Xin didn't know what it was.

Only deep in my heart can I vaguely sense a trace of charm.

A few lines from the "True Explanation of Water Element" flowed through my mind.

Li Xinfu reached the heart.

Suddenly, I understood a bit of the true meaning behind the dewdrops.

He pointed with his finger.

With a flicker of his fingertips, the golden flames of the universe and the sea suddenly changed, and countless flames collapsed inward, condensing into a single drop of deep blue water.

Pointing out with one finger.

A ripple the thickness of a finger appeared in the void ahead.

"Boom..."

The study wall was pierced, and the force of the attack remained concentrated, traveling more than ten meters before piercing through the sycamore tree in the backyard and then through the backyard wall...

It flew straight for 38 meters before dispersing into a cloud of water mist and disappearing.

"Good heavens, just a feeling, an enlightenment, and my finger technique has already become three times more powerful."

"The lethality and attack range of this finger are almost on par with large-caliber pistols."

From then on, I basically didn't need to carry those steel needles with me anymore.

"Practice for a while longer, and once you've mastered this condensation and release rule, shooting fifty meters will be a piece of cake—shattering rocks and splitting steel will be no problem."

"Since it was derived from condensed dew, this finger technique is called the 'Dew Condensation Finger.' It is mainly a unique way of condensing true qi and the most natural way of attacking."

Indeed, no matter how good the secret manual or how powerful the skill, nothing can compare to a technique that one discovers oneself, one that resonates with one's own nature.

Thinking of the "True Explanation of Water Element" that he had memorized, Li Xin felt a surge of excitement again.

This is something I shouldn't be cultivating at this stage.

I've passed the first hurdle of sensing Qi.

However, he was unable to cultivate any further.

For some time, he racked his brains but could only vaguely figure out that it was probably an outdated Taoist book, and the environment no longer allowed it.

It now seems that this Taoist scripture is not learned through practice, but through enlightenment.

If you understand it, you can use it; if you don't understand it, you won't make any progress.

Holding it in your hand, it's about the same size as a piece of toilet paper.

"Is this how cultivation was done in ancient times?"

Li Xin chuckled, then let out a long sigh of relief. It was good that there was a way, as long as his mental strength continued to improve, until he could understand this world and see through this universe.

He could easily handle a mere Taoist book.

There's plenty of time; there's no need to rush.

"By the way, where did that feeling come from? It was like my mind suddenly became incredibly clear."

It wasn't perceived through the five senses; the world itself was telling him...

What's here? What's moving? What's changing?

This is the interaction between Heaven and humanity.

Just then, Li Xin, who had been concentrating with his eyes closed, suddenly sensed something.

It was an extremely faint yet strangely familiar aura that surged into my heart, as if it were seeping up from some very deep underground.

It will have some connection with oneself.

It's not dragon energy... Dragon energy is profound, vast, and carries the will of the people, while this energy is exactly the opposite.

It is extremely light and faint, like the last wisp of water vapor in a dry well in winter, or like the camphor smell remaining on old clothes that have been stored away for decades.

It exudes a sense of desolation and death.

Deathly aura.

He had seen the source of this aura. The bronze bowl in the dungeon of Wanfulou, and the vengeful spirits that the Silver Bottle Monk used to refine living corpses, all shared the same origin as this aura.

The energy before me was far purer and more ancient than what I had sensed from the monk Yin Ping.

It was so ancient that it seemed to have been sleeping underground for countless years, until the dragon vein crack tore open the earth, and it was only then that it was awakened by that slight tremor.

Is this the whereabouts of the character for "death"?

Last time, we didn't find the "death" character image underground at the Wanfulou Theater. We don't know where the Silver Bottle Monk put it.

Could it be that besides the Dragon Vein Array, the Great Snow Mountain is hiding something else in the capital?

They sensed a slight opportunity, but couldn't pinpoint the direction, let alone the location.

Li Xin simply stopped thinking about it.

You'll encounter it sooner or later.

Li Xin withdrew his internal vision and slowly opened his eyes.

The sky outside the window was already bright, and the dew on the bamboo leaves was evaporating into a very thin white mist under the morning sun.

He looked down at his hands, his fingers clenched lightly, and a crisp, fine cracking sound came from his palms. A faint golden arc of electricity flashed and disappeared in the air.

Seven of the eight extraordinary meridians have been opened.

The confluence of the dragon veins was the toughest and most difficult part, and the consumption of dragon energy far exceeded expectations...

There were only forty-odd taels of dragon energy left in the silver bottle. It was uncertain whether this would be enough to break through the final barrier of the Chongmai meridian.

But he wasn't in a hurry, because opening the Chong meridian didn't require brute force, but rather a trigger.

Integrating everything, which is the complete cycle of Qi, transforming Qi into Gang.

This step, of course, can also be considered a hurdle.

Not only is a sufficient quantity of true qi required, but the quality of true qi must also be honed to the extreme, with an extremely subtle grasp of every meridian and acupoint in the body.

The most crucial point is to unify the true qi and blood, both internally and externally, to achieve true balance and unity.

Take it slow.

……

He put the silver bottle back into his bosom, stood up, and opened the study window.

In the courtyard, Ali was demonstrating the newly learned Baguazhang starting stance to Xiaoyue. Xiaoyue tilted her head and watched for a long time before suddenly asking, "Senior sister, is this move for stealing peaches?"

Ali stood there stunned, and after thinking seriously for a while, she said, "Master said this move is for hitting people, but I think it's also good for picking peaches."

Xiaoyue then insisted on trying it under the peach tree in the backyard.

Zhuang Hongxiu walked by under the corridor carrying a bowl of medicine, and smiled slightly when she saw this scene.

Her smile was warmer than the morning light.

Li Xin withdrew his gaze, pushed open the door, and went out.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter.